I was thinking of writing a small app, that potentially needs SMS notifications [That is, it should send out SMS's, to start with anyways]. I read about SMS Gateway on Wikipedia, and other articles on the web. It seems most recommend http://www.clickatell.com/ as they provide an API, but I was looking for alternatives.
Can anyone provide any direction here? This is a small project on the side for me so I am hoping it won't be too expensive. I honestly did not look into the pricing of any vendors out there, but is it possible to hack up such a service? I came across this [http://jmarinez.typepad.com/blog/2007/05/poor_mans_sms_g_1.html]
Any suggestions/pointers would be nice.
Thank you all.
If you're just sending a few, you should send them using an email. The only downside of this method is that you need to know which provider they use, which means either asking the user, or looking it from an expensive DB.
If you do know which provider they have, you can look up the email here
http://www.livejournal.com/tools/textmessage.bml?mode=detail...
If you don't want to ask, you could use Teleflip, who will do the lookup for you. Just email phonenum@teleflip.com
There was an earlier discussion about this, but we don't have a FSQ [1] or search feature, so I don't blame you for missing it. Take a look at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=68227
Let us know which way you end up going!
[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=97491